Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 16.7.5

16.7.5

and, on the other hand, he has such a mistrust of your years, and of your rising notions about your being intitled to freedom, power, and a participation of authority, that he wishes to keep you totally ignorant of business, so that you may never pretend to dispute his will, or to aspire at that degree of independence which you are intitled to; for by the right of inheritance, as well as by your personal character for capacity, you are above all your relations, being confessedly the flower of your family, and the flambeau of your grandfather's posterity; and thanks to God, you are now become a man, and have ceased to be a child. So much submission looks unbecoming at your age, and with your pretensions and rights. Should you quit the camp, and repair " to Azim-abad, it would not prove a difficult matter to pull down "Djankiram, a poor Gentoo, who is only your deputy, and who " will do as he shall be bid. After you shall have produced your " person to the world in that manner, your uncle shall have no " other party left, but that of acting in conformity to your will." Such a speech could not fail to make the deepest impression on such a man as Seradj-ed-doulah. He listened attentively to the advice, but kept it in his heart for use; and it becomes highly probable that some measures were already concerted.